Under electric conditions, participation is inevitable. The visual monopoly is over; visual organisation is over. Nothing “visuable” is twentieth century (IU make no value judgments here). In the Catholic Church, the new liturgy is an attempt to accommodate to electric forms. The Church is the only institution capable of coping with the situation and is not very keen on it.
“The De-Romanization of the American Catholic Church” (1970), in The Medium and the Light (1999), p 55
Year: 1970
Chapter:
Catholic Church
Compiled by William Kuhns
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan
© 2026, The Estate of Marshall McLuhan